The thrust of his argument is that businesses can no longer rely solely on traditional forms of “interruption advertising” in magazines, mailings, or radio and television commercials. Instead, if you want to capture a reader’s attention, you first need to get permission. This involves creating an incentive for the reader through some form of informational offering.

When it comes to marketing your law firm, this education-based approach can be highly effective. For example, offering a free guide download, e-book or whitepaper, in exchange for a phone number or email address is a proven client generator. By connecting to volunteers of information, permission marketing guarantees that consumers pay more attention to the marketing message.

Godin is a master of modern marketing concepts. As legal services solicitation carries serious ethical considerations, understanding the concepts of permission marketing is that much more critical to marketing a law firm.

Gyi Tsakalakis helps lawyers earn meaningful attention online because that's where clients are looking. He tends to write about legal marketing technology. He misses coaching football and is happy to discuss various strategies and techniques of defensive front seven play.

2 responses to “Permission Marketing Must-Read”

I love Seth Godin, but this permission marketing idea of his has, in my view, been completely abused by users. Just because I download an e-book does not mean that I am giving permission to the sponsor to spam me with five emails a week about this program or that.
I have several thousand people on my various auto-capture lists that I’ve accumulated over the years. I think I’ve sent maybe 6-7 emails to all the lists in the two years that I started capturing this information – and I’m always reluctant to do so.